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The L-Shaped Inner Thigh Lift

One of the common body contouring procedures for the bariatric or extreme weight loss patient is the need for thigh lifts. While not usually part of the first stage body contouring efforts, it often is part of a second or third stage makeover effort. The problem with the thigh lift is that the traditional medial Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Parasagittal Skull Implants

Background: The top of the skull has the best aesthetic shape when it is a smooth convex curve from one temporal line to the other. This shape can be altered and is influenced by the original sagittal suture line which runs down the middle of the skull between the two original anterior and posterior fontanelles. Read More…

Chin Implant Bone Imprinting

The use of a chin implant for an increase in lower facial projection is often combined with other procedures (e.g., rhinoplasty) as well as done as an isolated chin augmentation. It has a long history of use in aesthetic facial surgery dating back over fifty years and nearly every available biomaterial has been tried as Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Large Nose Female Rhinoplasty

Background: Rhinoplasty can achieve many different types of nasal changes. The classic requested changes would be reduction of a prominent hump or bump and making the tip smaller, more refined and usually shorter. Straightening of a crooked nose is also a common request and is done as part of any other nasal shape change. These Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Upper Eyelid Lifts under Local Anesthesia

Background: Upper blepharoplasty surgery, more commonly known as an eyelid lift, is the most common cosmetic eyelid surgery. It is tremendously effective and is associated with a very low risk of complications. While eyelid tissue is very thin and swells significantly after surgical manipulation, the recovery is fairly quick. The results of blepharoplasty surgery is Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – The Extended Tummy Tuck

Background: Tummy tuck surgery is one of the most common and successful types of body contouring surgeries. It is used in many post-pregnancy and weight loss women to correct the effects of having babies and the changes that process can induce on one’s body in the mid-section area. This type of tummy tuck usually induce Read More…

Kybella Injections For Submental Fat Reduction

The recent approval of Kybella for the treatment of under the chin fat (submental) fat appears like it is a new treatment. And as an FDA-approved drug it is. But the concept of a fat dissolving injectable drug is really now new and has a predicate history in the world of mesotherapy and the Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Custom Occipital Implant in Women

Background: One of the most common aesthetic skull deformities occurs in women with concerns about the shape of the back of their head. Lack of adequate fullness at the vertex and upper occipital region creates a flatness that promotes some women to compensate by puffing up their hair to hide it. This is such Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study – Platelet Rich Plasma and Hydroxyapatite Granule Maxillary Defect Reconstruction

Background: The nasopalatine cyst is a well known pathology of the maxilla that often presents as an asymptomatic anterior palatal swelling. It usually develops behind the maxillary incisors and is thought to be caused by the ductal tissue within the incisive canals. It appears radiographically as a round or heart-shaped mass in occlusal plane or Read More…

Plastic Surgery Case Study: Bilateral Cleft Lip Repair

Background: Cleft lip and palate is one of the most common facial birth defects often cited as occurring in about 1 in every 1,000 births. While there are race, gender and world wide differences in this occurrence rate, it is a condition that is well recognized around the world for its prevalance. Almost everyone has Read More…